Practice Areas:

• Business and Corporate
• Securities
• Merger and Acqusition
• Intellectual Property
• Banking and Finance
• Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation

Education:

• J.D., University of Michigan, 1996
• B.A., Whitman College, 1992

Boards & Memberships:

• Connect Northwest, Director

Spokane

T: 509.755.2097

F: 509.458.2728

ajs@witherspoonkelley.com

Legal Assistants: Susan Mitchell and Jessica Lowe

Andrew Schultheis primarily works with companies, entrepreneurs, investment banks, venture capital firms, and other investors in corporate and securities matters.  Prior to joining Witherspoon Kelley, Andrew practiced at Fenwick & West LLP, a Silicon Valley-based law firm, where he represented such clients as Cisco Systems, Inc., Handspring, Inc., Intuit, Inc., Macromedia, Inc., Shopping.com Ltd. and VeriSign, Inc., among others.

From public companies to private start-ups, Andrew has represented clients in a broad array of matters. At Witherspoon Kelley, he assists public companies with corporate governance, securities law compliance, general corporate matters, and analyzing and establishing adequate takeover defenses. His work with private, start-up companies includes incorporation and initial capitalization, board fiduciary duties, venture capital financings, license agreements, executive compensation, equity incentive plans, loan facilities, and other business transactions. Additionally, Andrew has extensive experience in merger and acquisition transactions, and in a variety of corporate finance transactions.

• Licensed to practice in Washington and California.
• Joined Witherspoon Kelley in 2005.

Representative Cases/Transactions/Deals:

• Sterling Financial Corporation’s acquisition of Golf Savings Bank.
• Sterling Financial Corporation’s acquisition of FirstBank Northwest.
• Sterling Financial Corporation’s acquisition of Sonoma National Bank.
• Empire Health Services’ acquisition by Community Health Systems.
• VeriSign, Inc.’s acquisition of Network Solutions, Inc.
• Symantec Corporation's acquisition of Veritas Software Company.
• Elantec Semiconductor, Inc.’s acquisition by Intersil Corporation.
• VeriSign, Inc.’s acquisition of Illuminet Holdings, Inc.
• At Home Corporations acquisition of Bluemountain.com.
• Cisco Systems, Inc.’s acquisition of The Linksys Group.
• Macromedia, Inc.’s acquisition of Allaire Corporation.
• Handspring, Inc.’s acquisition by Palm, Inc.
• Vicinity Corporation’s acquisition by Microsoft Corporation.
• Cisco Systems, Inc.’s acquisition of Dynamicsoft Inc.
• Intuit Inc.’s acquisition of OMware, Inc.